The hotswap boot is stuck in SEA. Just toss your drive in and go. Like using the tape back ups used to be. Not happy to learn from Jim that target disk no longer functions
clay “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stop this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness.” B. Johnson 01/09/2020 > On Nov 6, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I've got a cool external drive, I think its a Western Digital, that uses a > base that is just the normal SATA connectors. So I can pull the base off and > use it with just a bare drive if needed. > -Curt > > On Friday, November 6, 2020, 8:25:59 PM EST, Clay via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > They only share RJ-45 and USB. After scouring interwebz, looks like removal > from MB and sticking it to USB 2 cable/sata cord for hooking to MBP to cherry > pick files. > > clay > > “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, > about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stop this general bout of > self-recrimination and wetness.” > > B. Johnson > 01/09/2020 > >> On Nov 6, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Do both have firewire or thunderbolt? Get the appropriate cable and boot one >> into target disk mode. >> That saved my bacon when my last MBP died... >> >> -Curt >> >> On Friday, November 6, 2020, 4:34:04 PM EST, Clay via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Close the loop on this post. >> >> I went with MBP 9,2, as it has the optical drive. The HDD is good enough >> for now, at 500GB. Upgrading ram to 16GB, battery has fair life left. I >> had intended to upgrade to 2TB hybrid drive, max ram and fresh battery, but >> got bogged down with trying to migrate data. >> >> Short of yanking the drive from my current macbook and hooking it as >> external, what other option? I should have done the migrations right off, >> but the MBP came with a factory reset to 10.8.5 and required physical >> connection. I spent a day dragging the OS all the way to Catalina, thinking >> it would then allow me to migrate, which with El Crapitan it balked (MB is >> high sierra) saying the MBP was too retarded to access the MB drive. Now it >> says the MB is too retarded to be read by the MBP over wifi. >> >> I suspect it will be much quicker to pull the MB drive and suck data onto >> the MBP. What holds me back is I am doing all my work from the Macbook, and >> it now knows it is being replaces and has become recalcitrant about >> responsiveness and trackpad/KB input. Then, I will need to gather all the >> data from the MacPro, once I return to SEA. Another mess I suspect, as that >> holds terabytes of photo and music. >> >> >> clay >> >> I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > > clay > > “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, > about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stop this general bout of > self-recrimination and wetness.” > > B. Johnson > 01/09/2020 > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
